The software almost has too many features to comment on in any one review (e.g. Based on the hours of time this program has saved me already I would not even blink at the academic price tag of $133 (USD) - or cheaper for students.
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The Geneious team has made available a freeware version and a pro version that (for a price) allows you to access more functionality. Moreover, the software is structured in such a way that “new” plugins can be written and incorporated with relative ease. My request to provide a variety of nucleotide colour schemes was implemented within 2 weeks. As is the case with any new software there are a few features that don't work quite as well as you might like - but the good news is that if you write to them they will likely fix it up asap. With the integration of sequence chromatograph viewing and editing of DNA sequences/alignments (new in version 2) Geneious is now firmly embedded in my research practices. If you are looking for a piece of bioinformatics software for teaching purposes look no further than Geneious. Students did a Genbank search, downloaded files, did an alignment and built a phylogenetic tree (with bootstrapping) all in the blink of an eye. Earlier this year I used the Beta-release in some undergraduate teaching labs - with great success.
While the software has some “bell and whistles” for more complex tasks one of its key attributes is a simple user interface. The user interface of Geneious is both attractive and intuitive. The software logo “research in a flash” accurately describe the potential of Geneious - only months after its release it has become the “Swiss army knife” of bioinformatics software. Current and future releases of Geneious (offer a solution to (most) of these frustrations. Chopping and changing between different file formats and at times different operating systems (Mac, PC, Unix/Linux) has been a frustrating and time-consuming exercise.
For a long time scientists who generate or analyse DNA sequences have been using multiple pieces of software to: 1) view chromatographs, 2) trim sequences 3) Blast data 4) align sequences 5) build phylogenetic trees.
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